2004-11-21 - 1:16 a.m.
A better idea:
Approximately four thousand five hundred years ago, a little island sixty miles north of present day Crete was changed. That little island is now called Santorini, then it was called Thera. Vulcanologists have refered to the volcanic eruption from the island of Thera as the single greatest eruption history records. Dendrochronologists surveying tree rings have found ash layers in ancient trees that would have been alive at the time. Amazing.
Crete was a home to the Minoans. The Minoans constituted what historians call a Thalassocracy; a naval power like Great Britain was.
The eruption of Thera (it indeed destroyed eighty percent of the island) caused a Tsunami that would have been terrible in size. Pressure beneath the sea caused the rock and sand to enter the atmosphere. It destoyed the entire Minoan navy on the northern side of Crete. It's important to note however, just as devastating as the first tsunami was the second. A void in the sea was quickly filled with water and a second great wave was created. Not on the northern side, but the southern side was destroyed by the blowback.
Equal and opposite reaction. This happens in all areas of life. Not just oceanographic text books...old as the hills. This weighs on my mind in a cryptic way. My response to my life, my response to whatever else can come. If life is going to be ambiguous, I'll be ambiguous right back at it.
water like a blanket
